She was told at the
time by immigration officers that she would “never see” her daughter again.
Indeed, that vicious prediction might have come true, had her case not been
taken up by the American Civil Liberties Union and two law firms. The footage of the reunion is hard to watch: it makes you feel a strange combination of
relief, anger and species shame. “Forgive me, my darling, for leaving you
alone,” she says to her daughter as they clutch one another. “Forgive me. I
didn’t want to.”..